#secrets

I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself. . . ↗

— Jennifer Haigh

#companionship #family #growing-up #secrets #sisters

It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond, against all sense and reason. It is their weakness, and their great strength. ↗

— Mary Stewart

#death

All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, gaps where the answers should be, where someone should have sat, where someone used to be. A name that is never uttered, or uttered just once and never again. We all have our secrets. ↗

— Cecelia Ahern

#secrets #family

Someone could cut through the mess in our house and look at it like one might look at rings on a tree or layers of sediment. They'd find the black-and-white hairs of a dog we had when I was six, the acid-washed jeans my mother once wore, the seven blood-soaked pillowcases from the time I skinned my knee. All our family secrets rest in endless piles. ↗

— Holly Black

#junk #secrets #family

A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know. ↗

— Diane Arbus

#photography #secrecy #secrets #art

There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight. ↗

— Robin Sloan

#secrets #friendship

Secrets are like plants. They can stay buried deep in the earth for a long time, but eventually they'll send up shoots and give themselves away. They have to. It's their nature. Just a tiny green stem at first. Which slowly, insidiously grows taller, stronger, unfolding itself, until there it is. A big fat secret, right in front of your face; a fully bloomed flower perfumed with the scent of deception. ↗

— Judy Reene Singer

#life

Every woman is well aware of the deadly ingredients of her soul which is why they all detest each other. ↗

— Ram Mohan

#anguish #animosity #detest #female #girls

People are secretive when they have secrets. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#people #secretive #secrets #life

The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#fate #fear #ignorance #life #order